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Title: Employment, Income, Marriage, and Divorce in Two Cohorts of Women
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1. Cherlin, Andrew J.
Employment, Income, Marriage, and Divorce in Two Cohorts of Women
Final Report to Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1978
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Children; Divorce; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Employment; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Work Attitudes

Data are analyzed from the NLS of Young Women and Mature Women on the following topics: (1) the postponement of marriage among women in their twenties; (2) the determinants of divorce and separation among young and mature married women; (3) cohabitation and subsequent marriage; and (4) the reliability and validity of retrospective measures of family structure. A number of effects of employment, earnings, work attitudes, educational attainment, and other social demographic and economic characteristics are reported. During the l969 to l975 period, the proportion of young women wanting to be housewives at age 35--as opposed to wanting to work outside the home--fell sharply, lowering the probability of marriage for these women. Employment and income are more important determinants of divorce and separation for married women in their thirties and forties than for married women in their twenties. Single, cohabitating women marry at about the same rate as do single, non-cohabitating women.
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Cherlin, Andrew J. "Employment, Income, Marriage, and Divorce in Two Cohorts of Women." Final Report to Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1978.